2023 OCT 02 | Written by Collin Fultz, FIRST Robotics Competition Senior Director & Rachel Moore, FIRST Tech Challenge Senior Director
We are excited to announce that FIRST ® Tech Challenge and FIRST ® Robotics Competition teams will be able to use the non-profit program version of monday.com for free this season!
This year, the non-profit program includes access to one monday.com account with 10 free users and unlimited guests per team. (The details of the access available to guests can be found in this article.)
To get your account, start a free trial in the platform via this registration page.
Afterward, fill outthis form to sign up as a FIRST ® team.
If you are interested in resources directly related to FIRST, FIRST Robotics Competition Team 2231 OnyxTronix invites you to check out their video tutorials.
FYI, it’s not the same relationship FIRST and Monday used to have. You only get 10 normal users; the rest are guest users. This comment and this link (also linked in that thread) have some useful distinction.
Now the collaboration is with a department that is designed for this type of nonprofit plan.
There is a specific thread for this subject, we invite you to check it out.
Looking at the videos from OnyxTronix, it looks like there is some specific FIRST templates/integrations. I cannot find them, was that just in previous years? or I have to wait for my account to be activated as an NPO account?
What type of turn around have you all seen after submitting the request? My trial expired, and I still haven’t heard back. I’m an agile guy at work, so I was looking forward to a tool like this we could use to manage our team’s work. I don’t love monday.com, but I’m hoping it gets better as I get more experience.
I found that I got a pretty quick turnaround when dealing directly with their support staff. I’m sure if you reached out to them and explained your situation (FRC Team looking to use Monday.com), they would be able to help you out quickly!
As an update and in fairness, I’ve remained in touch with Monday’s support team. Credit to them - they’re still responding and let me know yesterday that they were able to find the online form/application and have approved it, so apparently the offer is still valid. There are still a few items to resolve on their end (suspect its due to someone not quite setting the account correctly). As beggars can’t be choosers, I’m staying patient and letting it work itself out in due time. It really is a good software that we would be happy to pay for, but our team budget just can’t afford their normal pricing.
If FIRST is posting a blog telling everyone that a partnership exists, it’s not quite begging.
Last year my team invested a good amount of time setting up our Monday account to have it locked because the trial ended, and I never heard back from customer service when I asked what was going on.
I simply meant that I’m not going to light up their support team and demand that they hurry up and fix the remaining issues so that we can use their software that they’re generously offering free of charge.
